It really is crazy how one man can completely define the style of a whole studio. Yuichi Terao is incredible.

@@-MankoMan Indeed. Can't praise the man enough, he's a god at what he's doing. Terao's work combined with Abe's sakuga will never cease to amaze me on screen.

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I don't care much about the 3D either for the most part, usually I'm just fascinated by how well integrated it is, but I do dislike how no one even mentions Yuichi Terao while praising ufotable; most people just say the same old budget meme. In ufotable works, compositing should be appreciated just as much as 2D animation or even more. Also...TF is up with your channel pic? How can you put up a channel pic like that... Without sharing sauce?

@@-MankoMan I understand I am really sick of tired with unlimited budget work meme.Even if there's many videos explain how ufotable do what they do.People regardless still say that meme and it spread misinformation to people who don't know. I put this pic through google account probably if you sign on youtube through google you can put any photo I guess.

ikr, this is one of my fav channel on YT

I really wanna see the moon breathing, imagine how amazing it will be

Glad you enjoyed the video!

The only people who don't use smears in ufotable are the uncredited animators working there, and those scenes are mediocre at best. Ufotable's top animators like Masayuki Kunihoro are not like that. He uses agressive smears to show motion. Nozomu Abe does too, like with his zenitsu scenes. It's not like it'll affect the quality anyway. I love smears; Arifumi Imai is one of my favourite animators and he uses super exaggerated smears even while working with 3D backgrounds. Lack of smears is indicative of poor quality animation, but ufotable's lack of smears combined with extreme compositing is somehow appealing to normies.

@@-MankoMan Its similar to motion blur in games. People hate them, people love em. Some games implemented them correctly, some dont ufotable did them perfectly or did it minimally enough to not distract you from the flow of the action, or even to help focus on an action like Tanjiro slashing Sabito scene. Which is key I watched tons of anime for long time and I still get confused by poorly done action scenes. As cool as those high speed ultra blur scenes, they dont really convey the feeling

@@KenBladehart It just comes down to personal preference. I love the heavily distorted smears in Naruto vs Pain, which most people hate. It's extremely impressive to me, and you'll never get to see something that technically impressive from Ufotable's animation, outside of when Kunihiro or Abe are animating ofcourse. The comparison with motion blur in games is not correct. In games it's just a post effect that's put in after everything is made; it's literally useless and doesn't really add anything. In anime it's an integral component of the animation and is what makes the work of every animator unique. Without smears all you can really do is the slow motion-fast motion-slow motion... approach that ufotable uses a lot. Also they do use a lot of literal motion blur where the screen is just blurred a lot so that the characters don't look stiff, and I much rather prefer squashing or stretching over that.

@@-MankoMan Regardless, their showes still look amazing. Fate series is one of the best examples. Demon Slayer is amazing top but what I'm saying is that Ufotable has a different, I think, modern approach towards making animé. They're talented and their shows are always badass with beautiful animation, directions and stories.

@@-MankoMan Definitely agree with you on the smears part, but I definitely do not agree on the motion blur in games. Camera blur I can understand, because it’s a reduction in clarity, which is not what you would usually want. Vector-based per object motion blur, on the other hand, is really essential in conveying movement properly. There’s really no much to it, it’s basically the same situation as in cg animated movies. Even at higher frame-rates you can still see gaps. For example, weapon animations are definitely escalated to another level with proper motion blur(cod modern warfare 2019 is an obvious example here). I would recommend watching the digital foundry’s video on the matter, it’s really good and conveys the idea very well.

About the equipment, yeah I know I don't have good ones, but unfortunately this is the best I can do as a broke college student. If all goes well I will get a job this year and I'll upgrade all my equipment, starting with getting a personal room so that I don't have to wait for everyone else to go to bed before I make videos lol. Also, I won't get discouraged by the view count at all. Making these videos and sharing them is my passion. I do it cause it's fun, regardless of the views I'm getting. Also my channel is still very young, so it's not surprising that I'm not getting all that many views right of the bat. Even though getting low view count won't discourage me, getting a high view-count would definitely be encouraging so I do get the point. As for the length of the videos, I've thought about that too, but it's again a situation where I'm choosing my personal taste over what's objectively beneficial. I'll look into it with my future videos. Thanks a lot for the kind words and suggestions! Comments like yours really mean a lot to me.

@@-MankoMan Again keep it up man, and I wish you all the best ❤️

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

The layer breakdown is from sakugabooru. Here's a good place to get started: www.sakugabooru.com/post?tags=genga_comparison+order%3Ascore+

Didn't use "effort" because it is such a subjective idea when it relates to quality, and the point I was trying to make was the relation between quality and popularity. I'm sure the folks over at white fox who worked on re:zero s2p2 worked their ass off to get the show out, but it didn't look good cause they didn't have time. It was really profitable though. There's also ex-arm. A massive amount of effort was put into it by professional stunt-men, but the end result was garbage. Quality was bad and so was profitability. I wanted to prove the point that a better looking show is not always profitable, and while quality and effort do go hand in hand, the anime industry is definitely one with the most amount of wasted effort as well. Also art is NOT subjective. Not at all. Not when it comes to animation. It's very easy to judge an anime by the frequency of well animated scenes in it, the quality of composite, the art direction etc. If someone says they prefer OPM S2's animation over S1, they are objectively wrong. Only at the highest level, like OPM S1 vs mob psycho 100 does art become subjective. And finally, adaptations won't always be more popular and profitable. Code geass was definitely more profitable than a lot of manga adaptations.

@@-MankoMan I am not sure if Geass was that profitable compared to many manga adaptations. Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece are billion dollar franchises. The only originals I see were more profitable than any manga adapation would be Mobile Suit Gundam/Zeta Gundam and Gundam Seed/Destiny. Those shows didn't have a long episode count but singlehandledly made Sunrise one of the richest studios ever, allowed them to control the toy market. But you almost never hear about these stories again.

@@-MankoManI mean it is subjective tho. It’s impossible to be objective with art.

I greatly appreciate your words! You made my day. Glad you enjoyed the video.

Ufotable is as pretty open company as far as explaining their work structure. They even openly talk about..ahem...tax evasion. But yeah, sakugablog is my main source of information for anything anime related.

I will. Just takes a lot of time. Glad you enjoyed.

Freelancers are still given credit. In rare occasions they go un-credited but that won't happen here. Abe should still be freelance.

Noice.

I plan on making detailed videos on each components of visuals in anime sometime, will make sure to talk about berserk when I get to CGI. Glad you enjoyed the video!

@@-MankoMan talk about vanishing line too i just watched it and i realized that alot of the fights were in cg

Compositing*, compositing*, compositing*.

Compositing is different from composition

@@user-og6pb6dd5p yea somebody already…corrected that.

The composite is mediocre except with the closeup shots of the characters' faces. It's just that the animation is not as good as the other shows on the list. There are times when it's amazing like some fights, but mostly it's just normal animation with very little movement.

Animation is simply not as good as the other shows in the list. There are times when the animation is good, like the fight scenes, but it doesn't hold a candle to full sakuga shows.

Um... I don't think you'll like my new videos.

@@-MankoMan well you know what,, I love them... I saw a lot of them last night.. Really love them

@@Parshwa_Nathwani no more hair though :(

@@-MankoMan 😔😔😔

The production for the show stops before the episode count that was planned in pre-production. For example, god eater was supposed to be a 2 cour show, but production stopped after 13 episodes because Ufotable could no longer handle the project.

Can't think of closeups where 3D reference is used in this show. If you give me some examples I might be able to confirm.

@@-MankoMan on season 1 episode 1, at 2:37 Tanjiros brother turns and something about the animation feels off too me. I may just be reading in to it to much. A lot of the animations for these little things feels odd for 2d animation. But that aside, scrubbing this section of the episode made me realize there is an animation error at 1:53, when the younger brother runs up to Tanjiro. It looks as if Tanjiros outline is a layer above the brother and peaks through his clothes.

Just personal research. A lot of my knowledge comes from the youtube channel "canipa effect", and the rest from sakugablogs and my own research from various artists. Also I don't dislike 3D; dorohedoro is one of my favourite shows and it's full CGI. It's just that I simply prefer 2D animation, whether it's background, foreground or effects. Ufotable has great digital effects, though sometimes they do go overboard with it, and stuff like blood, smoke and sparks will never look as good in 3D as they do in 2D. You can see the difference for yourself when Nozomu Abe animates and all effects are hand-drawn.

I don't see how you came to the conclusion that I'm not giving 3D enough credit. You might wanna watch my episode breakdowns on my second channel if you think that I don't appreciate the 3D. I like it when it looks good, like the backgrounds in demon Slayer, and I dislike it if it looks like garbage, like most of the blood effects.

Camera Animation 💀.

Aot manga is too big. WAYY too big. No way producers are giving it away to a studio as a passion project.

@@-MankoMan Again and example of greed. Like who the hell would come up with that deadline?

@@-MankoMan there wasn't even needed to be a passion project schedule. Just a Normal schedule. Not this hellish schedule 💀

This Australian genius: kzfaq.info Started here, then did my own research. Still learning new things everyday.

Yeah. And that's wrong as you saw in this video

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Guess I'll make a patreon soon lol.

@@-MankoMan yay 4k mankoman

Im actually gonna use this explanation

No. They did an amazing job.

Didn't you heard 8 months. 8 freaking MONTHS is terrible for a Normal anime. Part was roughly around a year

Did you watch the whole video?I think you don't understand what he means by animation.